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    <center>Scilab Function</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : April 1993</div>
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      <b>solve</b> -  symbolic linear system solver</p>
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      <font color="blue">Calling Sequence</font>
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        <tt>[x]=solve(A,b)  </tt>
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          <b>A,b,x</b>
        </tt>: matrix (resp. vectors) of character strings</li>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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    solves <tt>
        <b>A*x = b</b>
      </tt> when <tt>
        <b>A</b>
      </tt> is an upper triangular matrix
    made of character strings.</p>
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      <font color="blue">Examples</font>
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A=['1','a';'0','2'];   //Upper triangular 
b=['x';'y'];
w=solve(A,b)
a=1;x=2;y=5;
evstr(w)
inv([1,1;0,2])*[2;5]
 
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      <a href="trianfml.htm">
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          <b>trianfml</b>
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